George Weigel
Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies
George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds EPPC’s William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.
George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds EPPC’s William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.
From 1989 through June 1996, Mr. Weigel was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he led a wide-ranging, ecumenical and inter-religious program of research and publication on foreign and domestic policy issues.
Mr. Weigel is perhaps best known for his widely translated and internationally acclaimed two-volume biography of Pope St. John Paul II: the New York Times bestseller, Witness to Hope (1999), and its sequel, The End and the Beginning (2010). In 2017, Weigel published a memoir of the experiences that led to his work as a papal biographer: Lessons in Hope — My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II.
George Weigel is the author or editor of more than thirty other books, many of which have been translated into other languages. Among the most recent are Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (2013); Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches (2013); Letters to a Young Catholic (2015); The Fragility of Order: Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times (2018); The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission (2020);Not Forgotten: Elegies for, and Reminiscences of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of Them Admirable (2021); and To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II (2022). His essays, op-ed columns, and reviews appear regularly in major opinion journals and newspapers across the United States. A frequent guest on television and radio, he is also Senior Vatican Analyst for NBC News. His weekly column, “The Catholic Difference,” is syndicated to eighty-five newspapers and magazines in seven countries.
Mr. Weigel received a B.A. from St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore and an M.A. from the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto. He is the recipient of nineteen honorary doctorates in fields including divinity, philosophy, law, and social science, and has been awarded the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, Poland’s Gloria Artis Gold Medal, and Lithuania’s Diplomacy Star.
Unity in What?
George Weigel
There can be no bracketing of moral issues in a genuine dialogue about recomposing Christian unity.
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Syndicated Column / May 15, 2024
Playing the Venereal Game
George Weigel
Concocting confections of collective language keeps life light.
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Syndicated Column / May 8, 2024
Against Cosmic Melancholia
George Weigel
Voyager 1 has more than repaid American taxpayers the $433 million dollars it cost to build it.
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Syndicated Column / May 1, 2024
Thoughts on Dignitas Infinita
George Weigel
Dignitas Infinita is passionate in its rejection of abortion, and rightly links the abortion license to the erosion of “solid and lasting foundations for the defense of human rights.”
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Syndicated Column / April 24, 2024
Radiant in the Gulag and Elsewhere
George Weigel
And no woman of our Catholic moment embodied this Christocentric fidelity—opening doors to Christ, accompanying him to Calvary, living in the joy of the Resurrection—more than Sr. Nijolė Sadūnaitė.
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Syndicated Column / April 17, 2024
When Ideology and Blasphemy Meet
George Weigel
In light of this most recent statement of Russian genocidal purpose, calls for “peace” negotiations in Ukraine serve no purpose except to foul the global information space further.
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Syndicated Column / April 10, 2024
Baseball and Rumors of Angels
George Weigel
For baseball is a “signal of transcendence”—a window into the supernatural—in several ways.
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Syndicated Column / April 4, 2024
Easter, Creation, and Holiness
George Weigel
Throughout the Lenten itinerary of conversion we have lived for six weeks, the Church has asked us to reflect on God’s thirst for us.
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Syndicated Column / March 27, 2024
Following the Jewish Jesus
George Weigel
Over the past 1,800 years, other deviant Christian thinkers have tried to “take the Jewish out of Jesus,” so to speak.
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Syndicated Column / March 20, 2024
The Good News Is That The Bad News Isn’t All The News There Is
George Weigel
A suggestion for a different kind of Lenten fast: Give up Catholic bad news-mongering.
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Syndicated Column / March 13, 2024